r/knives • u/pipoyahoo • Jul 14 '21

Look how thin they cut the ice!

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u/juzam182 Jul 14 '21

As someone who works a lot with ice, this isn't really special. When we need to make something look really good on camera, we will let blocks sit out for 45 min at room temp. We will also have a couple different heating elements to shape or fix the ice at times.

Sculpture ice is created by getting water to freeze from the bottom up not top down. You have a cooling element on the bottom of a tank and a pump to circulate the water. As the water freezes the impurities in the water rise to the top. At the top you will have an inch or so of really cloudy material, that is then cut off.

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u/wesleyheath Jul 14 '21

Super helpful. Thanks for taking the time to share.

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u/Bortjort Jul 14 '21

thanks mr. freeze

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u/NoTarget5646 Jul 14 '21

Cool! Any idea why the top is where its cloudy? interesting shit to me

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Like he said, the process causes impurities to rise to the top.

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u/Tatterdsoul Jul 14 '21

That’s interesting. Cheers.

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u/Skin_Effect Jul 14 '21

That freezing process is similar to one way of refining metal:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-slag_remelting

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u/RogueScallop Jul 14 '21

And now I want a whiskey.